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When exposed to an exaggeration or fabrication about certain real-life occurrences or facts, some people will perceive the fictional account as being more true than any factual account. This might lead to people acting on preconceptions about unfamiliar matters even in a life-or-death situation, or cause viewers to cry foul when things on a show work out in a way that actually is realistic but contrary to "what everybody knows", like complaining of the "fake Scottish accent" of a real Scottish actor or about a character's death from a bullet "merely" to the shoulder. This is known as an "Orange Box" in television and movies, named after the "black box" of airplanes which are actually orange to make them easier to spot. Very widespread in fiction. In Real Life, it is commonly expressed as "you cannot make this shit up". For cases in which the unrealistic thing is reality—that is, the real-life element doesn't just seem unexpected or fake, but actually bizarre or absurd—see Aluminum Christmas Trees below. For a list detailing how unrealistic tropes can be dangerous in reality, see Television Is Trying to Kill Us. |
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On his review show Ross's Game Dungeon, he was going to slam the game Bozo's Night Out for lack of realism, since the objective of the game is to drink 60 pints of beer in one night and get your wobbly drunk self home safely. Ross didn't think anyone could drink that much without killing themselves from alcohol poisoning, until he discovered that André the Giant currently holds the world record for drinking approximately 90 pints of beer in just six hours. Bozo isn't as gigantic as André, of course, but he is still a rather large and fat man who is obviously very experienced at drinking. After doing some calculations based on a reasonable estimate of Bozo's weight, Ross eventually concluded that if he were real, he actually would be able to down 60 pints in one night and still live. | |
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X-Men: One common critique about the X-Men is often that they don't 'fit' with the rest of the Marvel Universe, since their entire premise is based on Fantastic Racism; it makes no sense for people to be OK with the Fantastic Four but not like the X-Men, simply because the X-Men gain their powers from being mutants. However, in real life, it's fairly common for people to be bigoted against one minority group but not have any issue with another, or even being good friends or idealizing people of one group while despising another, even if there's no real difference between the groups or what they can do. On top of that, its been shown that some people do hate non-mutant superhumans too, with Johnny Storm actually once getting attacked outside a nightclub by some bigots blaming him for the terrorist attack done by a villain note Civil War, # 1 (2006). To put it bluntly, of course the double standard is unreasonable, bigotry is is essentially unreasonable hatred against a group of people. (Of course, there's also the fact that the Four are led by an unbelievably handsome man - albeit with a plasticized body - while the two most prominent members of the X-Men are a somewhat sinister bald man in a wheelchair and a long-sideburned punk with metal claws. Who do you think would be more aesthetically appealing?) Though it still leaves the question of how people can actually tell mutants and non-mutant superhumans apart, which would be necessary for anti-mutant racism to actually be directed at mutants. | |
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Kofi Kingston got hit with this at the beginning of his career. Despite being from Ghana, he was billed as a Jamaican and coached to speak in the stereotypical accent, which he dropped a year later. This may have been in part because WWE was worried that most fans would not know where Ghana was, but it was mainly because Kingston's accent is very Americanized, and "no one" would have ever believed he wasn't an African-American trying (and failing) to pass for a native African. | |
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Mom Can't Cook!: Luke thinks that the Disney Channel Original Movie Jumping Ship doesn't look like it's set in Australia, but it was, in fact, filmed there. The hosts then claim you really need to film in New Zealand for it to look like Australia. | |
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: In-universe, The Player mentions that he once arranged to have one of his actors who was supposed to be executed hanged on-stage during their next show. It was terribly unconvincing. | |
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In another episode of The Simpsons, the guest star was John Waters (while Waters didn't actually appear As Himself, it's still a case of Ink-Suit Actor). John Waters' real mustache is basically a very straight thin line across his upper lip. However, in the cartoon, he had a wavy moustache. In the audio commentary, the reason John Waters' straight thin moustache was replaced by a wavy line was because John Waters' real moustache would just look like a straight line over his lip and disappear. John Waters said he actually liked it, but considered that it would be difficult to shave his moustache to look like that. | |
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Thomas & Friends is surprisingly concise about using a real-life basis for most of its engines, even during its Denser and Wackier years. There are obviously occasional liberties here and there (e.g. international engines being resized to work on British rail systems), but generally, even some of the wilder designs are based on real-life models, if sometimes one-time experiments (eg. engines with a built-in crane or water cannons). Diesel 10 is the nearest to a fantasy design, though even then only in his modifications such as a mechanical claw, his locomotive build is still factual-based. | |
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The Reddit subreddits /r/thathappened and /r/untrustworthypoptarts are for busting doctored posts and flat out bullshit, but many submissions are of things that actually do occur in real life, much to the surprise of the person who thinks they're calling out karma-whoring. | |
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Cake Wrecks ran into this with a groom's cake made to look like a photorealistic replica of the groom's head, back when the existence of edible photo paper wasn't as well-known as it is now. | |
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A line ended up removed from the musical 1776 because of this trope: John Adams claimed that if they allowed slavery in America, trouble would happen a hundred years hence. That was actually claimed by the real Samuel Adams (John's cousin) but the writer knew people would just attribute it to historical hindsight by him and removed it. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 2: In-universe example. In Eyes of the Gorgon, a battle between Medusa and Wonder Woman is being broadcast on national TV, and one of the viewers comments that "The CGI looks totally fake!". | |
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Cracked sometimes makes collections of such stuff. Like "15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped" with about a dozen sequels. Or "5 Real Life Soldiers that Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy". Or "5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic", which lists "mind-blowing moments from real life that Hollywood decided were too fantastic", such as John Dillinger taking three people hostage with a toy gun in Public Enemies but 17 in Real Life. Six Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly. They've also suffered from this at times: for instance, entry #10 in this Photoplasty contest expresses "bafflement" that James Bond would be using his real name. As we note here, spies really do usually work under their real names, even when under cover; "cover" refers not to lying about your name, but rather lying about your job—rather like James Bond lying that he worked for Universal Exports rather than MI6. 5 Real Bank Heists Ripped Right Out Of The Movies. 5 Real Prison Escapes That Shouldn't Have Been Possible. 8 More Unrealistic Versions Of Movies That Really Happened. Right when you think movie plot is weird, the author showed you even weirder stories Real Life. |
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Defied in Batman: Hush. Catwoman is shot in the arm by Harley Quinn...and while she survives, in subsequent scenes, she is shown to be physically weakened from loss of blood. | |
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Fire and Ice (1983) is an example in a surprising way: the rotoscoped movements of the characters are often criticized as being "unrealistic" because they have none of the exaggeration found in almost all animation. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition tries to head off arguments over this trope from either direction with a sidebar in the intro that notes that yes the rules are abstract and not totally realistic for the sake of ease of play and fun, and that, "Should anyone start querying the rules, citing martial arts training, historical precedent, or even, Gods forbid, logic, the GM is fully within their rights to throw dice, food, or even this book at the offender. WFRP is a game, not real life." | |
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In the Overly Sarcastic Productions video on El Dorado, Red notes that if she knew nothing about the Conquistadors, then a story about brutal imperialists who conquer, enslave and pillage numerous civilizations while searching for a non-existent city made of gold, throw away tons of platinum because it wasn't gold, and ultimately wreck their empire by way of tanking their economy due to all the gold they did manage to find and import would strike her as a heavy-handed morality tale. | |
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Not Always Right tells the story of someone who was unaware of the rarity of disapproval voting outside game shows: | |
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Many of the physical feats seen in WWE rings simply must be seen to be believed, because hardly anyone would ever believe you if you simply told them. While the astonishment could be due to the deceptively lean and/or compact bodies of some Superstars hiding a substantial amount of muscle mass, another factor is that the matches are carefully choreographed (the moves often improvised, but those moves having been meticulously worked out by others in years past, and performers whispering the moves to each other during a match if that is the case) and both "competitors" cooperate to provide the "dominant" Superstar with leverage. Cesaro opened a lot of eyes when he demonstrated his talent for swinging opponents around by their ankles for half a minute at a time, despite appearing to possess only average physical strength. Never are these feats more astounding than when performed by Divas - and this goes for the Faux Action Girls, too. There exists WWE footage of Stacy Keibler bodyslamming other Divas despite looking borderline malnourished, and on at least one occasion Maria Kanellis managed to put Natalya- a Diva roughly twenty pounds heavier than her - in a wrist lock for a second or two. (Of course, if wrestling were truly real, it would be very boring because guys like Kurt Angle and Shelton Benjamin would win every single time.) | |
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In Turning Red, the streetcars in the movie show the driver holding a steering wheel. Streetcars run on rails and cannot turn freely like a bus. Given that the other details of the streetcars are portrayed as realistically as possible, the presence of steering wheels in this case is probably because having buttons instead (as is actually the case for streetcars) would look out of place for a vehicle on the road that seems more similar to a bus than a train. | |
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Schlock Mercenary amorphs had a problem because repeating what Sergeant Schlock does on the TV is impossible and no one is impressed by their tricks now. Schlock can't either — so he considers solving it in his usual style: Footnotes are often employed to point out examples of this happening, sometimes with in-universe justifications. For instance, stellar remnants aren't nearly this colorful in reality, but by the time spacefaring technology had advanced to the point where people could tell the difference themselves, they had gotten so used to the idea that they put smart filtering into their viewports and visors to restore the color they'd come to expect. |
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W.I.T.C.H.: In-universe example in one story. Irma had been drafted to write the script of a musical based on the first saga, and the dialogue she wrote for a romantic scene was laughed at as too cheesy and unrealistic-except she had copied it from a phone call between Peter Cook and Cornelia (who was in the room), the latter of which is the base of one of the characters. | |
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The page image comes from xkcd, where this trope is exaggerated. She's holding a genuine 19th century saber, in her hands, in front of him. He's still convinced that it must be photo-manipulated since those sabers are so rare... despite the fact that there are no photos, and he's looking at the saber in front of him. Another xkcd example in "Plutonium". One scientist suggests using a "power orb" made of a metal that emits energy, and a couple of others respond dismissively. Lampshaded in the caption "For something that's real, plutonium is so unrealistic." In another comic, Cueball acts like Ken Burns's series of PBS history documentaries are a fictional series set within the same shared universe, and he thinks Burns forced a connection between his films by making Doris Kearns Goodwin both a historian in The Civil War and a sportswriter in Baseball. That would be an unlikely combination in a fictional setting, but Goodwin is in fact both. |
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In Moviebob's escape to the movies review of Like A Boss he criticises the villain for being "over the top rich and mean" for no real reason even though he acknowledges this type of person does exist, but from fiction he still requires motivation. | |
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In an episode of American Dad!, Klaus makes a joke about black Germans as though they're an entirely fictitious thing. In real life, there have been black people in Germany for a century and half. Like many other European countries, Germany's history of Colonialism means that there are many descendants of slaves and African immigrants still living there. In more modern days African American soldiers have had children with Germans as have "guest workers" in both east and west and immigrants from "socialist brother countries" to the GDR. Any major German city will have quite a number of black Germans, if less than in the US Parodied in "Black Mystery Month" where Stan and Steve find out that George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter (he didn't) and uncover a conspiracy. The episode ends with them submitting this to Wikipedia. This does in fact appear on Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions, but the conspiracy obviously isn't real. Some western viewers assumed that singing being a crime in Saudi Arabia in "Stan of Arabia" was an exaggeration of the country's harsh law code. In reality, it is in fact true that music is banned in Saudi Arabia. |
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Jem: Roxy Never Learned to Read despite being in her 20s in the mid-to-late 1980s (changed to the mid-to-late 2010s for the comic reboot). Someone being illiterate in modern day America is considered absurd to many viewers. This, however, isn't as unrealistic as it seems. 2017 studies show that 16 million Americans are considered functionally illiterate and many of these are 30 and under. It's also mentioned (and outright shown in the comic) that Roxy ran away as a teenager. She likely read enough to get through school and dropped out before it became a major problem. | |
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In Everything Wrong With Terminator 2: Judgment Day the movie gets a sin for Sarah "proving you can pick any lock with something metal and straight". Not only is the lock picking portrayed in a very realistic light (Sarah clearly uses part of a paper clip as a tension bar and begins finding and setting the individual pins with the other part) but Linda Hamilton actually picked that lock for real during filming of that scene. Yes, she proved she actually can pick any lock with something metal and straightnote Lock "technology" hasn't really changed in the last 50-100 years, with the locks instead getting more complex rather than coming up with entirely new locking mechanisms. The "bar and pick" method works on most standard key locks from the 1950's through today, with the only difference being the number of tumblers and the sensitivity of the lock cylinder. | |
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The Dragon Magazine article "Illusions of Grandeur" proposed a Spectral Farce spell weaponizing this. It makes things in the affected area to be perceived as less believable, whether they are real or not. Of course, in this case Illusion/Phantasm magic aura actually helps the effect if detected. The whole point is that a harmless spell becomes ridiculously lethal once the victims disregard as "fake and tacky" something like a swooping dragon — or even a badly disguised trap. | |
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Jonathan Pie invokes this when complaining about reporting on the phenonomon of Fake News, citing unlikely sounding real stories. | |
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The Jolly Roger Telephone Company is a company that provides bots which are designed to talk with telemarketers. In certain cases, the caller will be told by a knowledgeable supervisor that they've been speaking with a bot, only to refuse to believe that they could have spent that much time not speaking with a real person. In at least one case, the reserve was true and the caller figured it out, only to not be believed when she told those around her. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender The film used real Chinese characters for the posters and messages in its universe, as well as the opening, and actually had an expert in ancient Chinese calligraphy as part of the staff. The Last Airbender used a made-up sqiggle language because Shyamalan thought actual Chinese didn't look Asian enough.note It should be noted many fans believe the real reason for downplaying the Asian elements was to justify the controversial original casting - at first all the chosen actors were white, including Jesse Mccartney as Prince Zuko. In a similar vein Shyamalan also had the characters' names pronounced "properly", so that "Aang" (rhymes with bang) became "AAH-ng", "Sokka" (SOCK-ah) became "SOE-kah", "Iroh" (AYE-roe) became "EE-roe" etc. Detractors complained that the names were pronounced wrong, even though the Shyamalan pronunciations match their etymology - Sokka was named after the Japanese phrase sou ka? meaning "Is that so?", for example, so there is valid justification for going with the alternate pronunciation. The issue is that said etymology is based on the Chinese and Japanese languages which meant that the altered pronunciations should've been reserved for the Chinese and Japanese dubs. Placing them in the English dub was still the wrong move as the original pronunciations were clearly meant for an English-hearing audience. Fire Lord Sozin had Azulon when he was 82. While this is really old to be a father, it's not at all impossible, as unlike women (who only have a set amount of eggs), men can keep making sperm their entire life as long as they still have a prostate. Also, it's made clear that benders live longer, so they might effectively age slower as well. |
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Uendo Toneido from Spirit of Justice. You'll often see people bring up "unrealistic" aspects of Uendo's multiple personality disorder, such as how he has four personalities, how one of his personalities is a different gender, the fact that all but one share the same memories and switch in when they feel like it, and that his "child" personality who thinks himself five years old comes out whenever he passes out drunk. As others rightfully point out however, this is probably one of the most accurate depictions of your typical dissociative identity disorder in fiction.spoilersAlthough it might be unusual to have this many aspects piled together for one sufferer, it is far from unlikely. Differing genders, being in "dissonant" (aka, not in control but still conscious and aware) while other personalities are in control), hidden personalities that other alters do not know about, differing ages between personalities, and even the idea of a certain alter appearing when someone gets drunk, are all, in fact, common aspects of DID The typical Split Personality (one "normal/good" personality, and one "evil" personality who share seperate memories) as depicted in fiction is a very rare occurrence of it in real life. | |
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Batman: Defied in Batman: Hush. Catwoman is shot in the arm by Harley Quinn...and while she survives, in subsequent scenes, she is shown to be physically weakened from loss of blood. Batman: No Man's Land; a major American city gets hit by a national disaster, and the government basically leaves it to fend for itself, up to and including writing off the city and blowing the bridges out of town. Some people, including folks who liked the story, decried it as impossible, pointing out things like No FEMA Response. Then Hurricane Katrina rolled over New Orleans, and it didn't seem quite so improbable anymore. (Of course, Gotham City is the DC Comics version of New York, which would likely receive more and faster aid than New Orleans if similarly damaged, but the point remains, and the main complaint is the length of the No Man's Land story, which was months) |
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"It's My Party" by Lesley Gore (at that time, a 16-year old New Jersey schoolgirl taking voice and piano lessons) was produced and recorded, vocals, orchestra, brass section and all, as a demo recording in a small four-track studio in New York City by a young Quincy Jones over the course of a day and not meant to be released commercially. That changed after Phil Spector talked to Jones at a concert both attended of his plans to record the song with the Crystals; Jones mixed the recording, released acetates to radio stations across the country over the course of that weekend and it reached #1 in a month. | |
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The Magic School Bus: Arnold's "block of ice" moment during the climax of "Gets Lost in Space" seems implausible enough that it gets brought up in the Producers Segment. It has since been established that you can, in fact, survive brief exposure to outer space. | |
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Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff in all its Stylistic Suck glory is clearly something of a parody of crude MS Paint comics, rife with rock-bottom-quality art and JPEG artifacts, and are instantly recognisable as such. The kicker? MS Paint alone is incapable of that level of pure shittiness. Even using Photoshop to save a JPEG at the lowest quality possible isn't enough to reach SBAHJ's echelon of suck. Andrew Hussie has described his techniques for pulling it off, and they are surprisingly involved and detailed, infinitely more so than anything the theoretical poor "artist" persona could actually do. | |
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The Sound of Music: Many people will scoff at the idea of landlocked Austria having a navy, and, as a corollary, find Captain von Trapp's past as a submarine commander ludicrous. In reality, pre-World War I Austria-Hungary controlled a large part of the Adriatic Sea coast, and had a small but well-trained and well-equipped navy to keep their blue-water ports open. The real-life Captain von Trapp, in the meantime, earned his stripes as a midshipman in China helping to put down the Boxer Rebellion, commanded two submarines during World War I (U-5 and U-14), sank an Italian sub and a French armored cruiser and was Austro-Hungary's most decorated Navy officer after the war. Incidentally, he also angsted over the German offer of a submarine command a lot longer in real life than the musical; after having been a naval officer without a navy for two decades, the offer of a top-of-the-line submarine command was sorely tempting to him. | |
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This happens to poor James Acaster on Taskmaster when the contestants are challenged with altering their appearance as much as possible during an elevator ride. James hops on, hits the floor, and then hits the emergency button, expecting it to stop like it does in movies and give him all the time in the world to change. All that happens is an alarm sounds, but the elevator keeps moving. By the time he realizes he's screwed, all he manages to do is get his jacket half off and one measly point. | |
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Game Grumps: Their justification for not using a Face Cam while playing: while they SOUND funny, they just LOOK like stereotypical gamers plopped in front of a TV. They only LOOK funny when they have the power of editing or a script. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Heart Of Ice", the sight of Batman defeating Mr. Freeze by cracking his glass helmet open with a canteen of chicken soup can come across as unintentionally funny and out of place in an otherwise tragic episode, but it makes use of actual science via thermal shock, which can crack or outright destroy brittle matter by introducing something hot to something cold. | |
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In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the first victim is killed with a glass bottle to the forehead, leading to people to question why it didn't shatter, leaving it to be presented in court intact (made worse by the fact that the series is based on finding such contradictions, but asking this in game isn't an option and a previous game in the series featured a bottle that broke when someone was hit non-lethally). Glass is not as fragile as depicted in Hollywood, and the process used to make the bottle (of which there are several) and the quality and amount of material used are a factor. In fact, the non-lethal broken bottle from the previous game was likely a cheaper product, and was non-lethal because it broke, which absorbed a significant amount of the energy involved, while the unbroken bottle would have transferred more energy into the skull, thus causing more damage. The common misconception of Soft Glass exists because scenes where glass is broken don't use real glass — they used to use "sugar glass" (essentially, flat rock candy), and now just use a plastic "breakaway glass". | |
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Balto Some viewers assume that the Incurable Cough of Death caused by the diphtheria epidemic is just a clichéd device to indicate the kids are sick, since coughing is so often used in fiction for made-up diseases or diseases that don't actually cause the sufferer to cough. In reality, diphtheria actually does cause a cough because of the toxins and fluid filling the lungs. The death toll is also sometimes thought to have been greatly reduced for the sake of making it kid-friendly. In reality, the majority of the kids did survive thanks to the dog sled teams delivering the serum in time; the actual death toll is uncertain (especially since the native population didn't report all their deaths), but it may have been as few as six or seven in Nome. Also, some people say that there was no way that little Rosy could have still been alive as the grandmother in the live-action framing scenes, because the serum run was so long ago. Actually, it was in 1925 - when the movie was done in the 90s, a person could have easily still been alive, as she would have been in her 80s-90s. |
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Ross Scott of Freeman's Mind was repeatedly told that his voice didn't suit the character of Gordon Freeman. He responded by posting a picture of himself, showing that, at the time, he looked practically identical to Gordon. On his review show Ross's Game Dungeon, he was going to slam the game Bozo's Night Out for lack of realism, since the objective of the game is to drink 60 pints of beer in one night and get your wobbly drunk self home safely. Ross didn't think anyone could drink that much without killing themselves from alcohol poisoning, until he discovered that André the Giant currently holds the world record for drinking approximately 90 pints of beer in just six hours. Bozo isn't as gigantic as André, of course, but he is still a rather large and fat man who is obviously very experienced at drinking. After doing some calculations based on a reasonable estimate of Bozo's weight, Ross eventually concluded that if he were real, he actually would be able to down 60 pints in one night and still live. |
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Frankie Valli lost two daughters within six months of each other, the first in a fall from a fire escape, and the second to a drug overdose. The play and film Jersey Boys depicted only the second, because showing both would have appeared contrived and melodramatic. | |
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The film used real Chinese characters for the posters and messages in its universe, as well as the opening, and actually had an expert in ancient Chinese calligraphy as part of the staff. The Last Airbender used a made-up sqiggle language because Shyamalan thought actual Chinese didn't look Asian enough.note It should be noted many fans believe the real reason for downplaying the Asian elements was to justify the controversial original casting - at first all the chosen actors were white, including Jesse Mccartney as Prince Zuko. | |
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When The Angry Video Game Nerd covered Paperboy, he was skeptical that a thrown newspaper could actually break a window as they can in the game, so he tests it out himself by throwing newspapers at a window at a rapid pace. To his surprise, the window actually does eventually break. | |
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Young Justice (2010): One complaint about the character design of Artemis was how she's half Asian but has blond hair. Greg Weisman responded that she's actually based on one of the producer's daughters, whose parents are both half Asian and have natural blond hair because both could have inherited the blond gene from their non-Asian parents. However, Artemis' mother is Vietnamese and Weisman mentions elsewhere that Artemis is fluent in French, due to Vietnam being a former French colony. If Artemis has at least one French maternal ancestor, it is plausible. When we finally see her father, Artemis has the exact same color hair as he does. More recently, the fandom has gone after her for having dark eyebrows, taking this as "proof" that she dyes her hair. They are, however, ignoring two critical pieces of information: Word of God says that her hair is natural, and blond people often have eyebrows that are much darker than their natural hair color. |
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A case of skin color confusion: in The Proud Family, LaCieniga is obviously Hispanic, and takes after her mother (who has dark skin). Felix also obviously looks pretty Hispanic as well (but is lighter), but his father Papi is white and could pass for being white European. There was actually a bit of debate where people assumed that Felix's mother was Hispanic and that he's only half Hispanic. In reality, there is such a thing as being "white Hispanic" and Papi most likely is. | |
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Parodied in one SpongeBob SquarePants episode in which Mr. Krabs pulls his way to use the sponge himself as a promotional money-making tool for the Krusty Krab, after a food critic complimented him. He makes SpongeBob leave his current position to manually work on a ride, having set up Squidward, in costume, for his place. After tiring out, SpongeBob gets attacked with insult and mockery for not looking like the real thing. It's not until the end of the episode that Mr. Krabs fixes things up. | |
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One of the oft-cited "absurdities" of George Miller's Happy Feet is that the main character somehow ends up far out his region, washed ashore and stranded. This has happened more than a few times, the most recent and talked about being the African Penguin who ended up a world away, and the King Penguin who'd somehow spirited himself beyond the Falklands. Penguins have even wound up in Alaska - admittedly, most likely by boat (escaped ship's pets), but still... | |
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Some fans of Welcome to Night Vale can be extremely picky about racial depictions, even though the show is well-known for being inclusive. Both actors who have played Carlos give him a standard Midwestern American accent. Fanfic writers who have him speak Spanish or Portuguesenote assuming he's Brazilian, as he was originally meant to be have been accused of otherizing and Latin Lover stereotyping, since if he spoke Spanish he'd have that accent when he spoke English. These critics have perhaps watched a little too much I Love Lucy and may never have been to Southern California, where Night Vale takes place; Hispanics routinely switch back and forth in mid-sentence and use crisp American English accents as Carlos does. | |
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In Nip and Tuck, a lecture on the importance of doing things right, and the effects it can have. | |
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Because of the increased focus on realism in later versions, occasionally Survival of the Fittest runs into this. One of the most notable examples is that many handlers have pointed out that if they made a completely played straight self-insert, it would be denied because "it wasn't realistic enough". | |
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Daredevil: One particular nitpick among fans is Matt Murdock's ability to "feel" what color a piece of clothing is. While it's presented in a more superhuman light, a large number of legally blind people can still see colors, even if they can't make out specific objects clearly, and even completely blind people may be able to tell, particularly with their own items of clothing, by feeling different fabric textures, patterns, etc. and recalling that particular object's color. | |
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On The Agony Booth Solkir notes in the Gladiatrix review that the villain was going to be described as horribly written... if the review hadn't aired shortly after the Isla Vista killings and their fallout, meaning that it's recently been demonstrated that there actually are quite a few people who have the villain's attitude ("Why don't women like me? What's wrong with them? How dare they?! I'll kill them!") almost exactly, making him Birds of Prey (2002)'s most believable villain. | |
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Queen in particular were notorious for this; contrary to popular belief, the "no synths" disclaimer on their early albums wasn't because they had anything against synths even then, but because they were annoyed that Brian May's guitar proficiency and their overdub tricks were being mistaken for synth effects. When Dave Grohl hired May to play several guitar tracks on the Foo Fighters song "Tired of You", he made a point of mentioning in interviews that the song is all guitar and vocals in case anyone mistook parts of it for strings or synths. | |
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The regular judge in the series is portrayed often as a feeble-minded old man, who has trouble keeping up with the proceedings. However, you'll often see people lumping moments in which the judge asks for clarification over a specific thing that he should already know about as a judge, or something that anyone should know, into being part of this character trait. For example, he asks Edgeworth to explain exactly what he means, when he says that the defendant has lost her chance of escaping criminality for her killing.NoteThe victim had attacked the defendant, so justified self-defense was at first thought likely. But the autopsy concluded that the victim was struck twice, and that the first blow knocked him unconscious. So the second, killing blow, was delivered to someone the defendant knew had already been fully immobilized. In fact, this is a realistic and common thing for judges to do during a trial, and they're very often quoted as asking for clarification on what something rather common place is, or for a legal dispute to be given more clarity or put into more simplistic wording. This is mainly for the sake of those in the courtroom such as the jurors, and the actual sides involved in the case, as well as the gallery, who may not understand what is being talked about. As stated on the show QI: | |
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South Park: In the episode "Satan's Super Sweet Sixteen", an in-universe example occurs when Steve Irwin shows up to the party, stingray barb still in his chest. People think he's a guy in a tasteless costume at first, but he is asked to leave once it's revealed that he is Steve Irwin (because he has no costume). In South Park's "Trapped in the Closet", the Church of Scientology believes Stan to be the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard, and their president offers to reveal to him Scientology's "highly classified" secret doctrine. He proceeds to tell a fantastic story about an alien overlord capturing and brainwashing people's souls. A natural reaction from viewers would be to laugh and assume it's a deliberately ridiculous "secret doctrine" that was made up for the show, when in reality, the story was taken from Scientology's actual secret doctrine that had previously leaked. Which is why the creators felt the need to add a caption saying "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE". |
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In The Aristocats, Duchess' kittens are the ginger Toulouse, black-furred Berlioz, and snowball Marie. It should normally be impossible for such a litter to exist. All My Kittens explains this by Marie having a different father from her brothers: Marie's father was white-furred while her brother's was a fertile calico. It actually is possible for littermates to have different fathers if the queen mates with more than one tom within a certain period. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Some viewers complained that the world, modeled on The Roaring '20s, looked too advanced for "only seventy years" to have passed between the franchise's first and second series. Yet when you consider the level of tech that was already in the previous series — tanks, ironclads, and giant drills, to name a few — if anything the show's technological evolution is slower than in the real world. Seventy years before the real world 1920s, the first ironclads hadn't even come off the drawing board, and tanks were decades away. Furthermore, when you consider the first powered and manned flight (1903) took place only 58 years before the first manned flight to space (1961) there is nothing unrealistic about technology advancing fast, especially in a world where bending would make large-scale fine construction and power generation faster, easier, and cheaper than it is in real life. When General Iroh II was revealed, fans complained because his voice sounded the same as teenage Zuko of the original series, when in fact General Iroh is somewhere in his thirties. Dante Basco is in his late thirties and that is his natural voice. The same thing happened in season 3 with Zaheer, who is old enough to be greying but has a very young sounding voice. His actor Henry Rollins is using his natural voice for the role and is in his 50s. Turf Wars: The degrees of homophobia shown here, namely the Water Tribes' "legal but keep it to yourself" policy, are (unfortunately) historically spot-on with real-world Asian cultures such as pre-Unification Japan and not simply a product of injecting Western social mores despite what some readers/critics claim of "pandering," as Asian historians/queer people can personally attest to, so yes, Sozin revealed to be a Heteronormative Crusader is both culturally and thematically accurate. note Homosexuality was tolerated to some extent in East Asian cultures up until several hundred years ago, when contact with the West introduced decidedly Western mores and viewpoints on sexuality. For example, in Japan, outright hostility towards homosexuality did not become widespread/institutionalized until the Meiji Era. This also tracks with Sozin outlawing homosexual relationships during his reign, when it was previously tolerated. On a more meta level, some fans objected to the Uniqueness Decay of Lightningbending and Metalbending in Korra's time. They were both were portrayed as either incredibly difficult or literally impossible in the original series and that making it more common breaks immersion. In reality, these phenomena are not uncommon in our world. Jimi Hendrix seemed to be uniquely a skilled guitarist, but only ten years after his death, emerging styles like Speed Metal and Power Metal produced guitarists that equaled, if not surpassed his skills in various areas. Long division was once thought to be incredibly difficult, but eventually a reliable method was developed and it's considered so simple that fourth graders can learn it. Similarly, Metalbending was considering genuinely impossible. Once Toph worked out how it works she is almost immediately able to bend metal as easily as earth. With a Metalbending master to show others the basics, it's unsurprising that it would spread very rapidly. |
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d20 Modern: Players and reviewers often complained about how unrealistic it was that wielding a weapon with a burst fire setting doesn't give you the effects of the game's Burst Fire feat. As the game's designers have pointed out, the point of the burst fire setting on guns is to ensure you only fire the three to five rounds in an automatic burst that have any realistic chance of actually hitting the target. If you don't know how to effectively fire an accurate burst with an automatic weapon, this setting won't make it any easier. This game got this in a lot of respects. Many players and reviewers complained about how a submachine gun could easily kill a character in the early levels of the game (where the median hitpoints could be around 7 or 8 at first level and a submachine gun could deal 2d6 (2-12)). The logic on why this was bad? Because SMGs shoot 'little pistol bullets' and everyone knows from movies those only wound you, not kill you. |
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Batman: No Man's Land; a major American city gets hit by a national disaster, and the government basically leaves it to fend for itself, up to and including writing off the city and blowing the bridges out of town. Some people, including folks who liked the story, decried it as impossible, pointing out things like No FEMA Response. Then Hurricane Katrina rolled over New Orleans, and it didn't seem quite so improbable anymore. (Of course, Gotham City is the DC Comics version of New York, which would likely receive more and faster aid than New Orleans if similarly damaged, but the point remains, and the main complaint is the length of the No Man's Land story, which was months) | |
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Ace Attorney: In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the first victim is killed with a glass bottle to the forehead, leading to people to question why it didn't shatter, leaving it to be presented in court intact (made worse by the fact that the series is based on finding such contradictions, but asking this in game isn't an option and a previous game in the series featured a bottle that broke when someone was hit non-lethally). Glass is not as fragile as depicted in Hollywood, and the process used to make the bottle (of which there are several) and the quality and amount of material used are a factor. In fact, the non-lethal broken bottle from the previous game was likely a cheaper product, and was non-lethal because it broke, which absorbed a significant amount of the energy involved, while the unbroken bottle would have transferred more energy into the skull, thus causing more damage. The common misconception of Soft Glass exists because scenes where glass is broken don't use real glass — they used to use "sugar glass" (essentially, flat rock candy), and now just use a plastic "breakaway glass". The act of calling a parrot to the stand in the first game seems ridiculous (the person who brings it up as a possibility does so to mock Phoenix), for good reason, but in actuality, such a thing has happened in real life trials before, and the idea of using words a parrot can speak as legal evidence is something that has happened before. The absurd part is how the game presents it in the context of such a serious moment in a murder trial, along with the way the parrot's cross-examination is treated in the same manner as that of an ordinary person's, rather than how it would realistically be if you were to use a parrot's understanding of human language as proof (most likely, you would present it as evidence, not as a witness). One of the cases, Turnabout Big Top, is considered the worst among fans, with one of the reasons being the absurd coincidences which answer a lot of the cases riddles. Such as- how did a witness, Moe, see the defendant fly away? The killer, Acro, who just happened to have an exact murder plot which involved dropping a heavy object out a window, used a random object that his monkey pet has in his stash, which just happened to be a bust of the defendant, Max Galactica. And the victim, the ringmaster, just happened to wear the defendant's clothes, and when the bust fell onto him, the defendant's cloak just happened to fly forward off him and snag onto the bust. Then the killer pulled the bust on a rope back up. So when the witness looked out the window, it was only by an absurd string of coincidences that he saw the defendant's silhouette 'flying' upwards as the killer pulled the bust up. And it was also only by these absurd coincidences that the defendant ended up being the prime suspect. In actual fact though, what's not realistic is the typical murder plots seen in Ace Attorney where everything's completely planned out. If anything, this case is one that'd be more likely to happen in real life than most. The regular judge in the series is portrayed often as a feeble-minded old man, who has trouble keeping up with the proceedings. However, you'll often see people lumping moments in which the judge asks for clarification over a specific thing that he should already know about as a judge, or something that anyone should know, into being part of this character trait. For example, he asks Edgeworth to explain exactly what he means, when he says that the defendant has lost her chance of escaping criminality for her killing.NoteThe victim had attacked the defendant, so justified self-defense was at first thought likely. But the autopsy concluded that the victim was struck twice, and that the first blow knocked him unconscious. So the second, killing blow, was delivered to someone the defendant knew had already been fully immobilized. In fact, this is a realistic and common thing for judges to do during a trial, and they're very often quoted as asking for clarification on what something rather common place is, or for a legal dispute to be given more clarity or put into more simplistic wording. This is mainly for the sake of those in the courtroom such as the jurors, and the actual sides involved in the case, as well as the gallery, who may not understand what is being talked about. As stated on the show QI: Uendo Toneido from Spirit of Justice. You'll often see people bring up "unrealistic" aspects of Uendo's multiple personality disorder, such as how he has four personalities, how one of his personalities is a different gender, the fact that all but one share the same memories and switch in when they feel like it, and that his "child" personality who thinks himself five years old comes out whenever he passes out drunk. As others rightfully point out however, this is probably one of the most accurate depictions of your typical dissociative identity disorder in fiction.spoilersAlthough it might be unusual to have this many aspects piled together for one sufferer, it is far from unlikely. Differing genders, being in "dissonant" (aka, not in control but still conscious and aware) while other personalities are in control), hidden personalities that other alters do not know about, differing ages between personalities, and even the idea of a certain alter appearing when someone gets drunk, are all, in fact, common aspects of DID The typical Split Personality (one "normal/good" personality, and one "evil" personality who share seperate memories) as depicted in fiction is a very rare occurrence of it in real life. |
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Hey Arnold!: Some people have noted that Helga's obsession with Arnold seems oddly sexual at times considering she's only nine. That said, while most kids don't really have "those feelings" till puberty (about 11-12 for most kids) its certainly not unheard of for kids younger than that to have sexual thoughts and feelings. | |
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Mind Mistress weaponized this at one point, by using the ludicrous way the United States both subsidizes crops to keep too many from being grown, and subsidizes them to grow more at the same time to convince an attacker that he was trapped in a poorly made imitation of reality. | |
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One of The Spill.com's biggest complaints about TMNT is that Splinter's voice doesn't sound Asian, when in fact it was voiced by the famed Japanese actor Mako Iwamatsu. (They were probably thrown by the fact a Japanese accent doesn't sound much like the played-up Cantonese accent used for all Asian people in most Western media.) | |
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Rage Against the Machine have a similar disclaimer on their albums that all sounds are made by guitar, drums, bass, and vocals. That didn't stop some reviewers from assuming Tom Morello's guitar solos on "Bulls On Parade" and "Guerilla Radio" were a turntable and harmonica respectively. | |
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Katawa Shoujo: Hanako Ikezawa's shutdown is a more accurate depiction of panic attacks than most people think it is. The typical depiction of panic attacks as gasping, shaking, crying, and generally melting down in a conspicuous manner is only accurate to one kind of panic response. Many people who suffer panic attacks do indeed shut down the way she does, and unfortunately this panic response means that few people realize it's happening at all, even after it's passed. Some people develop the shutdown response naturally; others do so out of necessity. Anyone's guess which is the case for her... | |
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Ratatouille: Invoked in-universe by Linguini when he defends Rémy, and explains that the rat is the real cook while he has no actual talent. As he points out, "I know it sounds insane, but, well the truth sounds insane sometimes!" Sadly, it just wasn't enough. | |
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Turf Wars: The degrees of homophobia shown here, namely the Water Tribes' "legal but keep it to yourself" policy, are (unfortunately) historically spot-on with real-world Asian cultures such as pre-Unification Japan and not simply a product of injecting Western social mores despite what some readers/critics claim of "pandering," as Asian historians/queer people can personally attest to, so yes, Sozin revealed to be a Heteronormative Crusader is both culturally and thematically accurate. note Homosexuality was tolerated to some extent in East Asian cultures up until several hundred years ago, when contact with the West introduced decidedly Western mores and viewpoints on sexuality. For example, in Japan, outright hostility towards homosexuality did not become widespread/institutionalized until the Meiji Era. This also tracks with Sozin outlawing homosexual relationships during his reign, when it was previously tolerated. | |
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